Carole BoyceDavies
Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zone
- ISBN 13:
- 9780252079535
- author:
- Carole BoyceDavies
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 264
- Dimensions:
- 15.2 x 2 x 22.9 cm
- Genre:
- Science & Nature, Earth Sciences & Geography, Education
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones by Carole Boyce Davies explores the complex and dynamic nature of Caribbean culture through personal experience and critical theory. This interdisciplinary work combines memoir and scholarship to examine the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community. Through her own experiences moving between Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, Brazil, England, and the United States, Davies portrays a rich and fluid set of personal experiences that reflect on the interrelated dynamics of race, gender, and sexuality in Caribbean spaces. She also shares many Caribbean people's stories of displacement, migration, exile, and sometimes return. By tracing these movements and connections, Davies reestablishes the links between theory and practice, intellectual work and activism, and personal and private space, offering a nuanced understanding of Caribbean culture and its ongoing impact on individuals and communities.
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